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The Windigo is a flesh-eating, wintry demon with a man buried deep inside of it. In some Chippewa stories, a young girl vanquishes this monster by forcing boiling lard down its throat, thereby releasing the human at the core of ice.
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In the morning the camp was astir before the sun. There had been alight fall of snow during the night and the air was sharp. Punk had donehis duty betimes, for the odors of coffee and fried bacon reached everytent. All were in good spirits. "Wind's shifted!" cried Hank vigorously, watching Simpson and his guidealready loading the small canoe. "It's...
Thus, it seemed to him, at least. Yet it was true that the lap of thewater, just beyond the tent door, still beat time with his lesseningpulses when he realized that he was lying with his eyes open and thatanother sound had recently introduced itself with cunning softnessbetween the splash and murmur of the little waves. And, long before he underst...
But sleep, in the long run, proves greater than all emotions. Histhoughts soon wandered again; he lay there, warm as toast, exceedinglyweary; the night soothed and comforted, blunting the edges of memory andalarm. Half an hour later he was oblivious of everything in the outerworld about him. Yet sleep, in this case, was his great enemy, concealing ...
The sudden entrance of his prosaic uncle into this world of wizardryand horror that had haunted him without interruption now for two daysand two nights, had the immediate effect of giving to the affair anentirely new aspect. The sound of that crisp "Hulloa, my boy! And what'sup now?" and the grasp of that dry and vigorous hand introducedanother sta...
A wall of silence wrapped them in, for the snow, though not thick, wassufficient to deaden any noise, and the frost held things pretty tightbesides. No sound but their voices and the soft roar of the flames madeitself heard. Only, from time to time, something soft as the flutter ofa pine moth's wings went past them through the air. No one seemedanx...
Then at length the darkness, having thus laboriously conceived, broughtforth—a figure. It drew forward into the zone of uncertain light wherefire and shadows mingled, not ten feet away; then halted, staring atthem fixedly. The same instant it started forward again with thespasmodic motion as of a thing moved by wires, and coming up closer tothem, f...
They talked little, and then only of the most wholesome and commonthings, for their minds were charged with painful thoughts thatclamoured for explanation, though no one dared refer to them. Hank,being nearest to primitive conditions, was the first to find himself,for he was also less complex. In Dr. Cathcart "civilization" championedhis forces aga...
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- Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951
- The Wendigo
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By Louise Erdrich. The Windigo is a flesh-eating, wintry demon with a man buried deep inside of it. In some Chippewa stories, a young girl vanquishes this monster by forcing boiling lard down its throat, thereby releasing the human at the core of ice. when the kettle jumped into the fire.
‘ Windigo’ by Louise Erdrich is a dark and mysterious poem the describes the abduction of a child by a menacing man/dog creature, the windigo. The poem takes the reader through a series of images that describe the landscape and the windigo in dark and foreboding terms. The scene is a terrifying one.
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The myths and legends of the windigo are an example of the attempt by the Algonquians to understand the manifestation in indivi duals of extreme mental tens i on and emotional stress . This manifestation is known by psychologists who have studied the north Algonquian psyche as the Ilwind;i.go psychosis" .
